i swear the rest will come soon ...

But ... why so much Hate ???

and its last pass befor Christchurch ( wich one is only a little hump not realy a PASS ...)

Its old fashion cars ...

New zealand is a nice place with its Mouse Point...

but quit hard road 'till Hamner springs

beautiful scenerie at least in the begining

befor the next camp ground on the other side ... that has been my coldest night ...

the same day i passt the lewis pass ...perfectly on midday...

Camping in a quiet place on the SH65 a few ks befor Spring Junction
It's may the cold and wet weather near the west coast gives me a few problemes to handle with ... the days are short the mornings and the evenings are cold and the clouds are low the weather is not predictable but i have to find enought time each day to cycle at least 60 ks ... (the more ,the better cos' you'll never now what tomorow is made about...)











Maruia Saddle ... not a big elevation but because not short and on a gravel road...

The Lake Rotoiri in St Arnaud

After almost one year i finished my trip ( from time to time i'm thinking back to all thi s good time ... sometimes a bit hard because of the wind ... the rain ... the cold weather ...the over dose alcool ... not enought sleap ... too much sleap ... the sikness ... the flat.... ENOUGH ) well it's been nice but it's gone ... but soon or later ... to leave its room to Another one but not yet ok enough speaking let me show you the pictures

not GMO cows...

this is not a nuclear explosion (it's better ...) but a nice sunset











































A week end on the Wharariki Beach

let's go to the beach...
(PS (for Justin ) do you remind the NUDE beach ?)

on a canoo trip by the tasman national park

Is'nt it ,????

the next mornings wiew

it's heavently nice

my house for this night in the middle of nowhere
















there's no heater but at lest no wind either
Humid and cold i will not sleep correctly all the night but ... hey that's adventure...










hi guys yes i know a long time has gone by since the last time but hey... i'm still alive.



and here are my last stories, since Australia i cycled from Christchurch to Takaka (N.Z) (pictures lost ... SORRY) to my (old) friends pete & moni where i spend a nice time kayaking, sunbathing cycling (yep cycling again) and fisching, unfortenatly i didn't catch a fisch so i had to eat mussels 3 days long (for breakfast, noon and diner ...) on a beach i don't hide you i was happy to turn back into the civilisation ... then i tavelled to the Cobb Valley to see a bit of nature ... in fact only the way up there has been really hard with all my luggage on a gravel road and 8 kms of 10% .



As i came to the top, totally exausted, walking and pushing my bike for the last 3 kms with no more power in my leggs, cold and wet, the dusk brock in and i decided to spend my night in a little information house with a strong cold snowy wind outside ( for a few hours i had the good feeling to still alive...). But i had at least a nice wiew the next morning with snow on the mountains just over my hed sunnshine and cold ........ And now i had to go back cos' i've got cold enought for the two next weeks...

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and now , guys i'm back in chch. with a sun burn on my face (cos' of to much surfing) like i didn't have one since ages but happy i enjoyed what i enjoyed...

come back for the next adventure to see how fred crossed the southern alps ...

take care

australian Pink Horn...










a kind of ... yep that's right...











a tipically australian Swan...






























don't remember the name...




































don't remember the name but it sounds like a monkey ...































had no time to ask ... had to run for my life...

my family in australia
from left to the right
Michael
Marcel the father
Petra the mother
Madae (his birthday is the 13. of march... just like me ... good boy...)
a great family thanks guys





the mother is away ... the father forgot telling her we're going to the beach ...but he's got a funny way to let her know where we are ...
















is that not a nice stand up... well... for almost a relatively long time for me...









surfing in australia on elisabeth beach

on the chch. airport...
















the same boat...











the sky tower...












welcome to SYDNEY
this time it's another boat...

so here i am ... after 3500 kms

and that has been the waterfall ... lovely isnt it

dangerous waters....

and then i came down to Wellington to a nice familly where i spended a few days without (well praticly without ) cycling

















concentration befor the last big hill in fact after all it has not been as BIG just dangerous because of the bad drivers (wich are in constantly growing number ... becoming more stupid aswell...) the wind ( sometimes strong up here and its power is even multiplied in the courves)
i would not cycle it again ... to dangerous guys if you are up here to cross on one or the other side ... take the train it's saver...











after that i had to begin the trip to my last destination on the north island...